Day in Photos: Sept. 20, 2012

An Indian Muslim student hits a burning effigy of President Obama as others shout anti-US slogans during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Kolkata. More than 30 people have been killed around the world during more than a week of attacks and violent protests linked to the controversial film, seen as insulting to the Prophet Mohammed.

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Bangladeshi men row during a traditional boat race in the Buriganga river in Dhaka. Rivers form an integral part of Bangladesh’s history, tradition, literature, culture and sports and boat races are an important element of folk culture.

A young Israeli boy climbs on rope obstacles in a playground as the sun sets over the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. Having just celebrated Rosh Hashanah the Jewish world awaits its highest holiday of Yom Kippur starting on the evening of September 25, 2012.

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Soldiers with painted faces march during a military exercise at the Marshal Bagramian training grounds near the Armenia-Turkey border, in Armenia. Around 2,000 troops from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are conducting five days of exercises, since September 15, under the flag of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).

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Morning fog raises from vineyards near Escherndorf, southern Germany.

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Nepalese Hindu women recite prayers led by a priest as they sit on the banks of the Bagmati River during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu. Rishi Panchami marks the end of the three-day long Teej festival, in which married women fast and pray for the good health of their husbands to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives.

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Samajwadi Party workers attempt to stop trains on the tracks in Allahabad. Opposition parties and trade unions called for shopkeepers, traders and labourers in India to block railway lines and close markets to protest against reforms, designed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to revive India’s slowing economy allowing in foreign retail giants such as Walmart and Tesco.

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Fire and smoke rises from fuel tanks at the El Palito refinery in Carabobo state, Venezuela. A fire that broke out at a Venezuelan oil refinery was apparently caused by a lightning strike, the country’s top oil official said Thursday.

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A man rows through wafts of mist on the lake Titisee in the Black Forest, southern Germany.

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Smoke billows from burning tires as Palestinian protesters prepare to throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes that erupted after a demonstration against an amateur anti-Islam film in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.

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A man crosses a deserted road during a strike in Kolkata, India. Angry opposition supporters disrupted trains in India on Thursday but had only limited success in enforcing a national strike to protest a government decision to cut fuel subsidies and open the country’s huge retail market to foreign companies.

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Professional cyclist Kathryn Bertine of Saint Kitts and Nevis, poses with cycling fan and bicycle constructor Didi Senft of Germany on the course of the road race of the Road World Championship Cycling near Valkenburg, southern Netherlands.

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Bangladeshi firefighters and residents try to control a fire at the Begunbari slum in Dhaka, Banglades. The cause of the fire in which at least 500 shanties were gutted was not known.

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Men wearing cardboard hats, depicting Apple’s new iPhone 5, pose for photos as they wait for the release of the phone near Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo.

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Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson serves champagne to travellers abroad Virgin America Flight 11 from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to San Francisco. Branson and some of the airline’s frequent flyers were tapped to be part of Virgin America’s new ad campaign during the flight using in-flight WiFi to transmit images back to live digital boards at New York’s Times Square according to the airline.

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A sniper aims his gun to Rocinha slum during the inauguration of its Peacekeeping Unit Program (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro. The occupation of Rocinha, a notorious hillside “favela” that overlooks some of Rio’s swankiest areas, is a crucial part of the city’s preparations to host soccer’s World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later.

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Protesters use sticks to smash the windscreen and windows of a car during an anti-America protest march in Islamabad. Some 800 protesters marching towards the U.S. embassy gathered in a demonstration to condemn a film produced in the U.S. mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

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A woman poses with a locust on her tongue at a discovery lunch in Brussels. Organizers of the event, which included cookery classes, want to draw attention to insects as a source of nutrition.

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Bathers enjoy the sunny day at Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. The sun and the heat mark the last week of winter in Rio de Janeiro.